Winter Ends

Politics

• The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions

• ‘The intelligence coup of the century’ For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.

Notes from the past

• Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban (2012)

• KOCH-BACKED THINK TANK FINDS THAT “MEDICARE FOR ALL” WOULD CUT HEALTH CARE SPENDING AND RAISE WAGES. WHOOPS. (2018)

Signs of the times

• We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now

• Forget Chess—the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

• Garbage Language Why do corporations speak the way they do?

• Reddit Posters Pick the Stocks Now

Other things

• Survivor’s Guilt in the Mountains

• The Hunting of Billie Holiday

• The Complicated Decisions Behind New Airline Routes